Please join us for this exciting collaboration between MoNA & La Conner Swinomish Library!
For a fresh twist on the classic book club model, Richard Vendiola from the La Conner Swinomish Library has selected several books related to the themes in Ross Palmer Beecher: Speaking in the Vernacular. Join us at MoNA to view the exhibition, have thrilling discussion connecting to the book of your choice, meet fellow book-lovers, and have light refreshments surrounded by art!
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Pick up any of these great reads! Then join us at MoNA on September 9 for an inspiring discussion!
Fiction:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The World's Fair Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Quilter's Apprentice by Jennifer Chiaverini
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Non-Fiction:
Star Struck Quilts by Barbara H. Cline
American Vernacular: Buildings and Interiors, 1870-1960 by Herbert Gottfried and Jan Jennings
Habitat: Vernacular Architecture for a Changing Planet by Sandra Piesik
The Spectacular of Vernacular by Darsie Alexander
Vernacular Rights Cultures: the politics of origins, human rights and gendered struggles for justice by Sumi Madhok
We Survived The Night by Julian Brave NoiseCat
Disconnected from Death: The Evolution of Funerary Customs and the Unmasking of Death in America by Troy Taylor and April Slaughter
Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad by Jacqueline Tobin and Raymond G. Dobard
Quilts and Human Rights by Marsh MacDowell and Beth Donaldson
Cost: Free!
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